"Airline pilots paid less than a manager at Tacobell"

With a huge cost of entry a small population from which to draw and increasing retirement rates, bottom feeding 'creations' like Jetconnect are the first to show signs of duress.
Of course hiding remuneration from a pilot until hired might muddy the water for a while, but airline management the world over is in part to blame:
HR and IR have, due historically unlimited supply of pilots driven terms and conditions so low that they fail to attract applicants. Those applicants are now fewer in numbers than taking the ridiculous step of hiding salary from an applicant is considered normal.

Rest assured the next 'Stream Lead' delivered story of woe will try and contain any upward movement in terms and conditions.

To paraphrase Sully, "No airline pilot wants their child to become a pilot"

Why precisely did Jetconnect exist?
It existed to arbitrage Trans-Tasman relations and undermine terms and conditions.
It had, after all no lease expense for its 'fleet'. It's CEO the hapless Paul Daff, didn't know the other directors, how much was in the bank account and begrudgingly admitted all pilot payments and bills were paid from Sydney.
That isn't a 'business' is but another IR strategy.
Hiding remuneration is unusual and doing so suggests that oversupply of applicants isn't something they expect.

From a previous poster, this is the current Command rate @ JC.
Assuming the Captain earning $241k is on Year 3, that's approximately $50k of above their base. $70k in another posters suggestion of $260k.

Do those figures include non-taxable allowances such as meals and overnights? Do they include any training/management margins? Lets assume they don't and those figures are gross taxable based on flight hours.

I'm not familiar with how JC calculate their overtime/incentive pay rates, but using the Air NZ CEA as a comparison, on that base salary those take home figures would require 80-90 hour rosters. Admittedly, when all you do is Tasman returns it might not be too bad a lifestyle. Unfortunately, I gather that's not the case with plenty of single sector and PAX duties, especially ZQN.

So yes, JC Captains are earning fairly decent money at the moment compared to their base. But they're having to work for it....

How are people finding the rosters with the 10 days off. Looking at applying in the not too distant future and will stay living a 2 hours commute (drive), dont want to uproot the family to live in Auckland.